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APA 6th ed. Note: Citations are based on reference standards. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Know what that means? Write it down! Checklists are good! As our knowledge increases in this information age, more and more failures are coming from examples of ineptitude and lack of organization.
Chapter 1 — Organization and communication are important in a hospital. They can and do save lives. Chapter 2 — Checklists are important and effective in aviation and emergency medicine. Chapter 3 — There are three types of problems: simple can be solved like following a recipe ; complicated solution requires multiple people, teams or specialists ; and complex each problem is unique and never the same twice. Oh, and checklists are important in construction too.
Chapter 4 — Organization and communication is important. Walmart saved lives faster after Hurricane Katrina than any government agency did. Chapter 5 — Soap works better with step-by-step instruction. Checklists are still important in hospitals. Chapter 6 — Checklists are still important in aviation. They save lives in critical situations at 30, feet. Investigate your failures so that you can make future improvements.
Chapter 7 — The assertion that checklists are important in hospitals is dramatically tested and further enforced. Chapter 8 — Checklists are important for financial investors.
Chapter 9 — Once again, checklists are important in an operating room. Our author finds out firsthand when a checklist helps his own OR save a life that he himself almost accidentally terminates through a mistake during a surgical procedure. My biggest takeaway? David Lee Roth is not an egomaniacal control freak after all. Recommended reading? Not sure. It was OK, and it had some points that will stay with me, but it seemed to be a lot of repetition.
Once again, as many of these books seem to be, it was twice as long as necessary to get the point across. Trevor I sometimes get notified of comments. This is a kind of checklist which sums up everything that is good and bad about checklists to me. The first is that a checklist only really makes sense for highly repeatable behaviours. There is a really good reason why they work so well when landing planes and performing surgery.
Things can go catastrophically wrong in either of these, but mostly they go wrong in somewhat predictable ways. It is like when I represented people in the trade union — people are infinitely inventive in getting themselves into trouble, but getting them out of trouble again generally follows a very predictable path.
Jet engines can stop in all manner of ways, but really, whether they have stopped because of ice or geese, in the end you are still going to want to land the damn plane.
The big lesson here is that checklists can very easily become self-defeating. There is an interesting discussion here about fires in operating theatres, for example. Checklists should also start from the assumption that the person using them is an expert. This is why they are not really recipes. In a sense, and this is a point that is made really well in the book, we all tend to think that checklists are important for other people to follow.
The fact we are deluded about our own abilities should be our primary assumption, but never seems to be… Checklists need to be comprehensive in the sense that they should be evidence based — what normally goes wrong — and culturally implemented — how do you trip people to make them check before they do what needs to be done? You see, we humans are really terrible at following procedures. We get bored. A computer, on the other hand, is really good at following procedures.
In fact, that is pretty much all a computer ever does. This is the reason why we tend to forget the milk we were supposed to pick up on the way home from work — even though we might have reminded ourselves just as we were leaving. We are victims of habit to the extent that something new tends to be forgotten. The advice here, then, is that checklists can make a huge difference, but that checklists, like poems, are very hard to write.
And that is true for much the same reason. I believe the best people to write checklists are those who admits to making mistakes — but then, I think people who admit to making mistakes are the best people anyway.
If writing a checklist is a remarkably difficult task, following one can be just as hard. In theory these should be easy — make sure you have answered all of the questions and you win! But what is really called for is a change in culture. You need to remember to go back and check through the checklist before handing in the essay, and really check it, not just glance over it. On one assignment this year I did not address an entire assessment criteria — it turned out I was not the only one to leave this particular criteria out.
It was not in the least surprising to me that this was the criteria that asked me to detail how I would change what had occurred. Given these limitations this book does make it clear that they do make substantial improvements to performance if they are well constructed, easy to use and effectively used. My main problem, though, is that checklists come at the problem from the wrong end of the telescope.
The first solution we should be looking for is not, how do we restrict the options available by writing more or less optional procedures, we should be redesigning out dangers. So a checklist is a kind of time bomb waiting to go off in the face of the overworked and overly stressed person who misses one of its line-items.
But, with that said, I think this is a very interesting book and also know that if I was the sort of person who made more lists I would probably be happier and more successful. You have to feel sorry for Atul Gawande's siblings. No matter how brilliant their accomplishments, at any family gathering, we know who is going to be center stage.
Click here. Order now for expected delivery to Germany by Christmas. But avoidable failures are common, and the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of our knowledge has exceeded our ability to consistently deliver it - correctly, safely or efficiently.
In this groundbreaking book, Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument for the checklist, which he believes to be the most promising method available in surmounting failure. Whether you're following a recipe, investing millions of dollars in a company or building a skyscraper, the checklist is an essential tool in virtually every area of our lives, and Gawande explains how breaking down complex, high pressure tasks into small steps can radically improve everything from airline safety to heart surgery survival rates.
Fascinating and enlightening, The Checklist Manifesto shows how the simplest of ideas could transform how we operate in almost any field. Review Text It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking Gawande is a gorgeous writer and storyteller, and the aims of this book are ambitious Malcolm Gladwell show more. Review quote It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking Rating details. Book ratings by Goodreads. If there is one topic that I have no natural affinity for, it is checklists.
Not only is the book loaded with fascinating stories, but it honestly changed the way I think about the world. The best-known use of checklists is by airplane pilots. Among the many interesting stories in the book is how this dedication to checklists arose among pilots.
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